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"Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."

"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."

"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."

"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."

"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."

"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
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"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."

"I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot."

"What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving."

"And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger."

"Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected."

"I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred."

"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace."

"A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created."
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